Mrs Dalloway
- 224
- Pages
- about 4 h
- Reading time
- Film 1997
- On screen
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Our view
“Mrs Dalloway” builds an entire novel from a single day spent with a wealthy woman in London after the First World War. Although it is brief, at little more than two hundred pages, some readers find it demanding and put it down early, meaning to return when they have more to give. Taken slowly, it is thoughtful and moving, better kept for a quiet week than a distracted one.
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About the book
Mrs Dalloway is a novel by Virginia Woolf published on 14 May 1925. It details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a wealthy woman in post-First World War London.
On screen
This book has been adapted for the screen once.
- FilmMrs DallowayIMDb
Adaptation data: Wikidata · On screen →
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.5 across 590 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 80% of the weight and the score stays at 7.5 — the Classics average of 7.7 barely moves it.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.3 | 51 | 9% |
| Hardcover | 7.5 | 539 | 91% |
Frequently asked
How long is Mrs Dalloway?
It has 224 pages — shorter than 70% of the ranked books in Classics.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
If you liked this
The same shelf — Classics — and a score of 7.5, the closest to this book.
